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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning enable students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically 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 a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to understand these important new open education undertakings. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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