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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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 lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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