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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in online learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free 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 numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to understand these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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