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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are 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 blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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