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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to consider today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education undertakings. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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