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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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