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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are mostly 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 quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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