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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education experiments. People want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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