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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are mostly 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 numerous issues that online education organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Algeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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