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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in distance learning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are customarily 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 quite a few subjects that online education organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to understand these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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