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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning are making it possible for students in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. 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 open courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? This open education book offers guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning experience. How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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