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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically 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 many topics that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these compelling new open education experiments. People want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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