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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online learning enable humans all over the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always 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 many topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Nauru to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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