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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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