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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in electronic educational technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are free for students 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 a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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