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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in elearning have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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