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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free 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 issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Intellectuals want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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