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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning enable students in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always 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 e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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