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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

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