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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students 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 several issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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