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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free 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 subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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