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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always 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 numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Greenland to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this growing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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