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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Syria to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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