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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these important new open education ventures. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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