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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently 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 subjects that online education institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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