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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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