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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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