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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Andorra to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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