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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning have enabled learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always 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 many topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to understand these new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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