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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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