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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online 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 a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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