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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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