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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free 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 variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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