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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not 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 issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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