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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

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