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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in online learning enable people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free for students 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 issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open educational ventures. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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