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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New changes in blended learning have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are typically free for students 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 issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational ventures. Professors want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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