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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in blended learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Montserrat to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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