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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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