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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are typically free for students 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 a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education ventures. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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