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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 (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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