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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in blended learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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