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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of South Florida to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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