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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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