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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online learning enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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