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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Korea, North to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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