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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning enable people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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