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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning make it possible for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better understand these new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also explores 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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