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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in e-learning have enabled students all around the world to participate in online classes. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Cyprus to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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