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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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