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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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