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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology have made it possible for students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners 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 several issues that distance learning institutions are considering now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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