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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in e-learning are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are normally 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 numerous topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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