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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily 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. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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