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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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