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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning are enabling students all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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