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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today 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 educators guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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