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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology enable humans all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always 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 a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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