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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily 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 quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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