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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever 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 stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Panama to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these interesting new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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