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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology make it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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