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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are generally free for learners 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 lot of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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