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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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