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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always 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 a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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