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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open education ventures. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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