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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Teachers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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