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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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