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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in electronic education technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily 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 a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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