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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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