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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in electronic educational technology have made it possible for humans in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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