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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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