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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning enable humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Austria to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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