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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also investigates 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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