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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open educational ventures. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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