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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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