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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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