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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these promising new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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