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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in technology-enhanced learning enable learners all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to consider now that online education technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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