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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that teachers 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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