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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily 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 several topics that online learning institutions have to consider today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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