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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in digital education technology have empowered students all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. 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 institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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