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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in blended learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. 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 a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational Resources (OER)