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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are typically free 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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