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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 many issues that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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