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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not 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 many issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this developing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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