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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are empowering students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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