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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning are empowering students all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are normally free 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 considering now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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