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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in blended learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOCs are commonly free for students 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. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing desire for data the inspiring 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 dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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