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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for learners in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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