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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students 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 several issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Guadeloupe to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational endeavours. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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