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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are typically 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 lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better understand these open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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