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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Aruba to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open education ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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