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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ecotech Institute to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these open educational endeavours. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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