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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving 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 these MOOC classes is all right? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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