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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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