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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these important new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for data the dramatic 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 intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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