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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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