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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly 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 quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Slovenia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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