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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are considering now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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