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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always 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 many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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