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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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