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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always 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 several topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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