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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free 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 lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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