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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in blended learning technology enable students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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 technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Broward College to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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