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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning have empowered students all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are normally free for students 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 a lot of topics that online education organizations have to consider today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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