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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education are empowering learners in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Georgetown University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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