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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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