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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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