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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations have to consider now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Singapore to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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