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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology make it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students 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 many issues that online learning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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