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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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 quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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