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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in digital education technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily 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 a variety of subjects that elearning organizations must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also explores the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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