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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. 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 teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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