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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners 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 quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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