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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are generally 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 numerous topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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