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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. MOOCs are commonly free for learners 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 e-learning institutions are struggling with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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