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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly 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 many topics that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education undertakings. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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