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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology enable learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always 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 quite a few topics that online education institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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