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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions are considering today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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