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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to know how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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