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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning are empowering learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open education experiments. Students want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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