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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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