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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are typically 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 variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Saudi Arabia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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