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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in blended learning have made it possible for students all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Jordan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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