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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning make it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students 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 a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these open educational ventures. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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