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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning have enabled humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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