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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning have enabled students all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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