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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest developments in blended learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always 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 numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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