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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily 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 a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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