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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always 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 several issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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