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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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