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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better grasp these new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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