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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always 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 lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open educational undertakings. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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