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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education enable people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational initiatives. Trainers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also articulates 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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