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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in e-learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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