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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education ventures. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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