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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Universities want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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