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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always 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 quite a few issues that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like North Seattle Community College to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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