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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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