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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning make it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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