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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are almost always 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 topics that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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