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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in online learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Italy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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