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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in distance learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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