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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are ordinarily free 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 topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Azerbaijan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the major 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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