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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning have enabled students all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like South Ossetia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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