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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in digital education technology are enabling humans all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these promising new open educational undertakings. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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