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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in digital education technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to understand these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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