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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for students in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently 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 issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bowling Green State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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