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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in electronic education technology have enabled students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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