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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in elearning have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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