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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in blended learning are enabling students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education ventures. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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