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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education are enabling humans in nations all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are generally free for learners 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 a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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