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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Micronesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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