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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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