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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in blended learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open 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 a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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