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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning are making it possible for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are normally 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 online education institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also explores the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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