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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology are making it possible for students all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these interesting new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also discusses 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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