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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in digital education technology make it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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