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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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