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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily 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 a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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