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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive open online courses are free for learners 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 a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Teachers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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