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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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