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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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