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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like French Guiana to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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