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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not 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 a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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