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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take classes 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. MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources