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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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