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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally 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 lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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