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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning enable humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not consistently 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 distance learning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these new open educational endeavours. Universities want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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