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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are customarily 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 many subjects that online learning organizations must deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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