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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education have enabled people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better comprehend these open education endeavours. Universities want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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