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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are usually free for students 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 a variety of topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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