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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in blended learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 a lot of issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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