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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are 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 several subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rwanda to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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