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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Georgetown University to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources