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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in online learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always 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 several topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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