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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning make it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are commonly free for learners 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 online education institutions are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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