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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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