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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOC 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 topics that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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