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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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