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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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