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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is adequate? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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