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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online learning have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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