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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are generally 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 several topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the major 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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