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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are mostly 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 quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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