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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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