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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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