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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic educational technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Belarus to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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