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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are customarily free 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 a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Reunion to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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