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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in blended learning have made it possible for students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Jarvis Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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