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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in online education are empowering people all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. 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 a variety of subjects that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Guam to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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