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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Norway to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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