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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in blended learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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