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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to consider now that learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to be more aware of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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