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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology are empowering students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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