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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Saudi Arabia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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