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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Netherlands to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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