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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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