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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic education technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently 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 blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education endeavours. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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