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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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