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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently 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 many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cape Verde to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open education ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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