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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are typically 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 a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Belarus to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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