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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are typically 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 learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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