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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently 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 quite a few issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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