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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Micronesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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