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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Solomon Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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