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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online education technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Malta to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these significant new open education endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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