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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are almost always free 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 numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Iraq to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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