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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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