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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Universities want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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