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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in online education are making it possible for students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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