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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning technology make it possible for learners all over the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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