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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Iran to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better perceive these important new open education endeavours. People want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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