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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in digital education technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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