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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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