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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also researches the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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