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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning are enabling humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC classes 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 variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Swaziland to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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