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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning enable people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these compelling new open education ventures. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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