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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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