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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not 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 elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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