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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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