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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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