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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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