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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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