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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 several topics that blended learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Instructors want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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