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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Puerto Rico to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these exciting new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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