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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free 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 a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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