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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners 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. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these open educational endeavours. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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