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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in blended learning make it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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