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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these fascinating new open education initiatives. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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