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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in elearning are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always 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 numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to understand these important new open education ventures. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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