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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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