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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 many issues that blended learning organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education ventures. Corporations want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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