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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are free 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 numerous subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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