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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in blended learning enable students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly 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 numerous topics that online education organizations must deal with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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