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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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