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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in e-learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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