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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nigeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major 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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