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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free 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 issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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