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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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