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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Berklee College of Music to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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