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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning technology make it possible for students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guam to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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