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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are generally 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 several subjects that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants need to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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