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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning make it possible for humans all around the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider 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 organizations be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Brunei to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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