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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to understand these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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