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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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