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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in online learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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