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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning enable people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Professors want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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