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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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