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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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