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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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