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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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