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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning enable people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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