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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning enable people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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