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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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