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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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