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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC classes are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today 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 participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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