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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for students in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Honduras to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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