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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically 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 a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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