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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always 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 topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Malawi to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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