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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education have empowered students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Students want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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