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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

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