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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also explores the 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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