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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in elearning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive open courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of North Carolina to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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