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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning are enabling learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Aland to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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