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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for students 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 a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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