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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the most important 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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