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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in online education enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are considering more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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