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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always 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 distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to understand these promising new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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