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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. 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 institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tajikistan to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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