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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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