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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in online education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. 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 educators be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to know how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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