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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are free for learners 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 numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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