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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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