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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these compelling new open education ventures. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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