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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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