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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in distance learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this growing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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