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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mauritania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these intriguing new open education ventures. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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