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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning technology are empowering students all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners 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 numerous topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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