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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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