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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free 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 a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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