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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally 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 many topics that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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