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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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