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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education endeavours. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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