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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free 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 quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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