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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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