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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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