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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive 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 numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Spain to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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