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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners 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 subjects that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Jamaica to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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