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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for students 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 elearning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Students want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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