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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning are providing the means for learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are 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 a lot of issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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