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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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