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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online learning are empowering humans all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that online education organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Barthelemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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