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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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