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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally 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 a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. People want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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