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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in distance learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these open education endeavours. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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