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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in blended learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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