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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in learning technology make it possible for learners all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the 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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