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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for humans all over the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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