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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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