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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online learning are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Arizona State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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