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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in online education are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily 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. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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