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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning enable people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these fascinating new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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