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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massively open online courses are 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 quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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