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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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