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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free 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 many subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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