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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Everyone wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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