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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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