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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning have enabled people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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