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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently 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 quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kirkwood Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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