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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently 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 a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are considering more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cambodia to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Educators want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the major 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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