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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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