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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning enable humans all over the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Venezuela to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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