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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always 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 quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also studies the 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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