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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 many issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education initiatives. Teachers want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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