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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always 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 a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Iran to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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