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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in elearning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Oman to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to better understand these exciting new open education undertakings. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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