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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners 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 online education organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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