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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in blended learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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