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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free 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 several subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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