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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open courses are typically free but do not always 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 quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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