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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ball State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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