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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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