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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently 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. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Venezuela to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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