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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners 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 numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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