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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning enable humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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