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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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