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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in blended learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free 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 lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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