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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning have enabled learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these interesting new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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