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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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