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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic educational technology have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not 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 quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also addresses the key 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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