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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always 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 many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like New Zealand to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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