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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily 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 a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to understand these important new open education initiatives. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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