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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 subjects that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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