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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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