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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online education are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly 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 variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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