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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open courses are free for students 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 numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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