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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are generally 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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