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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology enable people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently 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 a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Seattle Central Community College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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