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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning make it possible for learners all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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