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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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