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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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