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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to understand these exciting new open education initiatives. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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