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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning are empowering students in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 blended learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Eritrea to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better grasp these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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