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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like McHenry County College to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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