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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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