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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are normally 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 several issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Jersey to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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