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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest developments in blended learning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free 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 quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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