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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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