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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in blended learning are making it possible for learners all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always 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 topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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