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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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