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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education have empowered humans all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are commonly 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 a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. People want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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