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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free 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 a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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