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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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