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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are generally free for students 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 quite a few topics that online education institutions are considering today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Anguilla to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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