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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in distance learning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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