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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in blended learning have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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