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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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