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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free but do not 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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