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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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