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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational ventures. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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