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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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