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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are empowering learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always 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 issues that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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