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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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