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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education make it possible for humans all over the world to take online courses. 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. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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