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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better grasp these new open educational endeavours. People want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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