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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bellevue University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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