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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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