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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are generally 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 many subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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