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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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