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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are mostly free 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 many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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