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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not 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 education institutions have to consider now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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