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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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