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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these massively open online 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 education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these promising new open educational ventures. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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