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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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