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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in online education have provided the means for people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently 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 numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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