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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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