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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to understand these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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