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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive 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 several issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Norfolk Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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