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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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