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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not 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 topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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