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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in blended learning have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always 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 quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to understand these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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