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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are 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 topics that blended learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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