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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally 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 a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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