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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing 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 instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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