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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are 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 several issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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