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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Kenya to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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