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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning technology enable learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free 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 several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Jamaica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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