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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to understand these important new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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