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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in digital education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free 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 quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like The Bahamas to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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