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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in online learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guernsey to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education endeavours. Public servants want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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