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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to better understand these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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