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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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