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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New changes in online learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free 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 a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Rutgers University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to be more aware of these important new open educational endeavours. People want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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