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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education technology have made it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to take courses online. MOOCs 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 many issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Professors want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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