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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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