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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in blended learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these compelling new open education undertakings. Researchers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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