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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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 a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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