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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online learning technology are enabling students all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guam to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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