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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Scholars want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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