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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology have enabled humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are mostly 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 many issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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