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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not 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 issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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