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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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