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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning are empowering students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with today 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 educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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