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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in blended learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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