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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology enable humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many topics that learning technology institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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