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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning enable students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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