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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free for learners 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 numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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