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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in blended learning technology enable students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free 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 quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Jordan to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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