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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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