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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to take classes online. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to understand these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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