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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that online education organizations have to consider today because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Libya to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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