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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions are considering now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Central Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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