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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in digital education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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