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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology enable learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also considers 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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