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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning enable people all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are usually 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 quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Michigan to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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