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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning make it possible for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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