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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for learners 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 quite a few issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Serbia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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