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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever 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 teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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