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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning are empowering learners all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are normally 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also researches the most important 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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