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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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