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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in electronic educational technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly 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 lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational initiatives. People want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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