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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners 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 quite a few subjects that elearning organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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