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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in blended learning enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Instructors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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