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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning are providing the means for learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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