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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning have empowered students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these open education ventures. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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