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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily 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 a variety of topics that online education institutions must deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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