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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily 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 online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bhutan to conduct these MOOC courses? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. People want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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