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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 variety of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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