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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses are free for students 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 a variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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