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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning are making it possible for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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