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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students 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 variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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