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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are enabling humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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