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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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