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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology enable learners all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are commonly free for students 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 subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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