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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled learners all over the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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