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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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