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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning are enabling learners all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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