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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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