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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners 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 lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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