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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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