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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these important new open educational ventures. Scholars want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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