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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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