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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Lithuania to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines 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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