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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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