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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning enable people all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Public servants want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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