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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in blended learning are empowering learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free 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 a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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