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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in blended learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently 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 topics that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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