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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in elearning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free for students 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. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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