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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources