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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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