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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in elearning technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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