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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning enable people in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. 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 teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like The New School to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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