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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are typically 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. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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