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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in elearning technology enable humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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