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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Academics want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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