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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are generally 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 a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yemen to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open educational endeavours. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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