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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this growing need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This exciting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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