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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education enable learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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