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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions have to consider now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we certify that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Macedonia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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