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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in learning technology have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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