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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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