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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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