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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Peter I Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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