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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in blended learning are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open education ventures. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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