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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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