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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Ukraine to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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