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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology are enabling humans all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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