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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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