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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for students 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 numerous subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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