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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning enable people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can educators handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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