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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for students 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 several topics that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Thailand to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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