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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free for students 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 subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the 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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