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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online learning technology enable learners all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. 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 stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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