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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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