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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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