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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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