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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are almost always 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 a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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