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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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