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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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