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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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