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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly 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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