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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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