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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in electronic education technology have empowered students all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are mostly free 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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