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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not 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 a variety of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open education endeavours. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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