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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning are empowering humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rutgers University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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