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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Iran to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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