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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with today because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Educators want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about 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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