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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always 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 several issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Seychelles to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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