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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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