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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic educational technology enable humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free 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 quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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