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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are 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 numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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