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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally 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 quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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