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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are typically free for learners 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 a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Educators want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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