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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Colorado State University-Global Campus to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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