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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are typically 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 lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Syria to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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