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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education have provided the means for students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners 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 many issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peter I Island to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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