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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education are providing the means for students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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