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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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