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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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