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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning enable people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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