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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. 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 decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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