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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in blended learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are commonly free for students 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 a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Italy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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