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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in digital education technology are empowering learners in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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