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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily 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 quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Luxembourg to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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