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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are usually 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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