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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning enable people all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly 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 several issues that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Macau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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