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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic educational technology are empowering students all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. People want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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