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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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