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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly 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 subjects that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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