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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are mostly free 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 a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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