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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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